The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-07-23
The Stomach.

some points to reporter of the Sun
the other day about the way for a
man to make friends with his stom-
ach. "There are two big mistakes
that almost all persons make" said
he. zone is that they don't eat the
right things, and the other is what
they do eat they don't eat right. Dys-
pepsia and indigestion are killing
more people than rum ten times
over. Why delirium tremens is joy
compared with bad indigestion.
When a man has the tremens he's
happy sometimes, because he forgets
himself, but when he's got dyspepsia
his stomach is always conscious of it.
He can't sleep. His food dosen't
taste right. Boils break out all over
him. He's morbid. All his friends
seem to have deserted him, and some
day he goes off and blows his brains
out, and the public and newspapers
say he had business troubles. Bus
iness troubles! Why, what does a
a man care for business troubles when
his stomach's all right ? If his stom-
ach is right his head will be clear,
and he'll prosper. No glutton or
dyspeptic can stand up alongside of
man with a sound stomach and
clear head.
When you got up this morning
what did you do? Wentright off to
breakfast and filled yourself, with
your nose in the papers and your
mind running over the earth. You
don't know what you ate, or how
much or how long it took. For all
the good it did you, you might as
we'll have swallowed bacon and corn
bread, or turkey and buckwheat
cakes. or any other mixture that
would take up space in your stom-
ach. Then, while you ate, you gulp-
ed down ice-water and coffee alter
nately, and when you got through
you lit cigar and went down town,
glad of your part of the work of the
day.
That's no breakfasting. It's load
ing up your stomach, and it's worse
for you than if you hadn't eaten any
thing. Then you have headache
and feel bad, and grow fat and won
der how it all is. It's because you
don't pay as much attention to your
stomach as you do to your Office boy.
Your stomach takes its revenge by
making you wretched. To squelch
it you pour lot of liquor into 1t and
gulp some ice water on that with
cracker or pretzel and bit of cheese.
What sort of mixture is that Just
imagine the cheese and rum and
aud pretzel and think that something
inside of you has to get away with
that. If you want to drink. drink
and enjoy your drink. Don't down
it and fling things at it when you've
got il down. Take a glass of wine
and enjoy it, but don't fling it into
your stomach as you would your fist
into somebody's eye. Your stomach
ought to be your friend. but if you 60
to pitching into it it'll show fight,
and you may as we'll understand that
it will get the best of it.
When you get up in the morning
take big drink of water. Your sys-
tenn wants water first, An engine
isn't first fired up and then some wa.
ter let into the boiler. Clean your
teeth. and let the water run from the
spigot while you're doing it. Then
drink pint ofit. Use common n.y.
drant water no ice, no salt, no min
eral water. Ordinary water is good
enough for an ordinary healthy man.
Keep away from drugs and pills and
give your stomach show.
Ifyou're In a hurry to read the
papers, read them before breakfast.
When you sit down to the breakfast
table be happy; you're going to do
something pleasant. Breakfast isn't
penalty imposed on you or task
to be performed as soon as possible,
but a pleasant, enjoyable occasion.
Try and haye'somebody talk to you.
and talk yourself. Laugh. Start off
with fruit-some oranges, say. Then
eat some fish and stale bread, or stale
rolls or toast. If you want anything
more eat some meat. Take your
time to all. 1 stay at the table an
hour, and eat all the time. Don't
eat much, but take your time to 1t.
If you haven't time, eat less. The
time you spend at the breakfast will
be saved over and over during the
day.
Ifyou've been up the night before,
don't take a cocktail or ice water.
Try some broth and some tripe if
your stomach's pretty far gone.
When mans been off a little his
stomach is raw and infiamed. He